sleuth-dog
English
Noun
sleuth-dog (plural sleuth-dogs)
- Alternative form of sleuth dog
- 1820 March, [Walter Scott], chapter IX, in The Monastery. A Romance. [...] In Three Volumes, volume III, Edinburgh: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Co., and John Ballantyne, […], OCLC 892089409, page 238:
- "No force must be used upon him. Within what time wilt thou find him out?" / "Within thirty hours, so he have not crossed the Lothian firth–If it is to do you a pleasure, I will set off directly, and wind him as a sleuth-dog tracks the moss-trooper,” answered Christie.
- 1885, John Mackay Wilson, Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland:
- At the darkenin' he escaped upon the moss ; three troopers, guided by a muffler and a sleuth-dog, pursued him ; an" as we crossed the bog this mornin', we found ane o' the troopers sunk to the middle in't, an' his horse below him; [...]
- 2005, Sandra Choron, Harry Choron, Planet Dog: A Doglopedia, page 41:
- He then had a chance to reprise his role as the sleuth-dog in the television version of The Thin Man and won two PATSY (Picture Animal Top Star of the YearI Awards for his performances in 1959 and 1960.